Car-coupling



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Z. B; SHR'OPSHIRE & A. J. BERRYHILL.

GAR COUPLING. No. 338,108. Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ZEBEDEE B. SHROPSHIRE, OF OOLTEWAH, AND ANDREWV J. BERRYHILL, OFCLEVELAND, TENNESSEE.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,108, dated March16. 1886.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ZEBEDEE B. SHRoP- SHIRE and ANDREW J. BERRYHILL,both citizens of the United States, residing, respectively,at Ooltewahand Cleveland, in the counties of James and Bradley and State ofTennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gar-Couplers; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and

exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figuresof reference marked I 5 thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

Our invention has relation to car-couplers, and more particularly tothat form of ordinary draw-head and link-and-pin coupler, in which adevice operated from the sides or top of the car is employed to guidethe link into the opposite draw-head in the act of coupling, and theobject is to provide a simple and safe means for operating the ordinarylink and pin without the necessity of the brakeman going between thecars, thus avoiding all danger to life and limb; and to these ends thenovelty consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement ofthe same, as will be hereinafter 3o more fully described, andparticularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, the same letters of reference indicatelike parts of the invention.

Figure l is a perspective view of one end of an ordinary freight or boxcar having our invention applied thereto; and Fig. 2 is a side elevationof the ends of two cars, showing the position of the parts when thedraw-heads are 4 coupled.

A is the draw-head, and it is provided with the ordinary link, B, andcoupling-pin G.

D is a shaft, mounted in brackets d, across the end of the car, andprovided with a central crank, d, to which the coupling-pin O isattached, so that the said pin 0 may be raised or lowered from the sidesof the car by means of the arms E E, or from the top of the car by therod F, attached to the short arm a of the shaft D.

G is a crank-shaft, likewise secured to the front or end of the car bythe brackets b, and having operating-arms H, extending on each side ofthe car, so that said shaft may be operated without going between thecars.

sleeve downward below the line of the bottom of the draw-heads after thelink has been inserted in the opposite draw-head.

In operation the device is'used as follows: The parts being in theposition shown in Fig. 1, the link is raised by the sleeve through themedium of the shaft and handle or arm H from the side of the car, so asto enter the link in the adjoining draw-head, and as they come closertogether the draw heads strike the sleeve and force it below, as abovedescribed.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new anduseful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The shaft G, provided with the triangular sleeve K and operating-arms HH, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

Z. B. SHROPSHIRE. A. J. BERRYHILL. Witnesses:

J. G. STUART, WV. D. TRAYNOR.

